It’s as though the correct attribution doesn’t matter to people liable to drop the names or ideas casually.

Perhaps it shouldn’t matter. After all, truth is nothing but a by-product of discourse, and, in any event, the author is dead.

Anyway, I thought the point was these women were not anorexic, that they were in many cases “full figured.” Or did I miss the point? Were they actually supposed to be homely or even ugly?

Anyway, the article on Dangin is very cool.

Mmm, that made me think of lamb chops with mustard. Bye now!

Not to be a pretentious ass, but—actually, to be a pretentious ass—Baudrillard’s concept of simulacra may be a productive way to think about the perception of originality in magazine graphics and photography. Magazines are meant to be ephemeral, disposable. Perhaps you and Ian Spiegelman are connoisseurs of the medium; perhaps you have chosen to put a frame around these images, to historicize and elevate Lois’s work as the original, the exemplary. But to most people it is indistinguishable from the copies, and the copies of copies, and so on.

I am probably not doing justice to your thoughts or to those of Seeräuber Jenny, and, indeed, I am watering down Baudrillard’s virtually eschatological notions about the end of reality and of meaning. I guess it seems weird to me to get so defensive about magazine cover art. What next?

(I know, I know. You’ve moved on. You’re in New York now.)

Of course, as a graduate student, I should still be ashamed of myself.

@DorothyMantooth: Alas, one of the unattractive members.

He can mask me and put his pistol in my hand any time?

I wonder if that goatee would tickle my mangina?

Anything?

Heh.